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I'm wondering if by default all stations can be moved or they'll be stationary.

Can't remember if planets were stationary or not, but if they are stationary then I bet stations will be as well.
No reason to build different code for stations when they'll act like planets albeit small.

An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all. - Oscar Wilde

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Kekasi wrote:I'm wondering if by default all stations can be moved or they'll be stationary.

Can't remember if planets were stationary or not, but if they are stationary then I bet stations will be as well.
No reason to build different code for stations when they'll act like planets albeit small.

This was discussed by Josh and was (still may be) in the FAQ. Stations and planets do not move in LT because of collision issues and the physics engine that LT runs on. So, while planets and stations can be very large, they also must be stationary. Ships on the other hand can move but do have a size cap which hasn't been disclosed to my knowledge.

Cornflakes_91 wrote:
The last number i remember was that the size spread between the smallest ship size and the largest one was 1000.
So we can have things between 20meter fighters and 20km supercapitals.

Anywhere from a bus to the width of earth... plus some.

Cornflakes_91 wrote:
My imagination is trying to tell me that that spread was 10000, but that could just be wishful thinking.

Imagine a ship the width of jupiter.

*Pulls out my 1km ship*
"That's not a ship"
*Aussie pulls out his 200km ship*
"That's a ship."

An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all. - Oscar Wilde

We often refuse to accept an idea merely because the tone of voice in which it has been expressed is unsympathetic to us. - Friedrich Nietzsche

Kekasi wrote:
*Pulls out my 1km ship*
"That's not a ship"
*Aussie pulls out his 200km ship*
"That's a ship."

Australians will always pull out bigger things than you can. !AUSTRALIA!

Anyways, if Josh butchers the physics for massive ships we could possible have very large ships. Make docking like EVE (Proximity based) for super large ships and possibly make them dock based on proximity to a station too (Anchoring to the station?).
Surely the ship colliding with a small object wouldn't bug out the physics though?

BFett wrote:Ships on the other hand can move but do have a size cap which hasn't been disclosed to my knowledge.

At a guess: The size cap will be the max value where the game still works reliably. =P

What the size difference between the smallest and biggest ship will be?
That's a totally different topic and depends on a whole cartload of balancing considerations. But first and foremost it's an issue of what still works in the game engine.
If the smallest ship is 1% the size of the biggest and collisions goes haywire all the time then the difference is too big.

Black--Snow wrote:
Surely the ship colliding with a small object wouldn't bug out the physics though?

iirc the problem was something along the lines of the collison mesh resolutions.
the size of the small ship's collision box would be so small that it would glitch through rounding errors in the larger ships mesh.
or at least thats what it sounded like for me.

Black--Snow wrote:
Surely the ship colliding with a small object wouldn't bug out the physics though?

iirc the problem was something along the lines of the collison mesh resolutions.
the size of the small ship's collision box would be so small that it would glitch through rounding errors in the larger ships mesh.
or at least thats what it sounded like for me.

Hmm I see. That is something I wouldn't have issue with though, so I hope Josh allows that limit to be exploded. :V